Well, we won last night but we shouldn’t get hungover. There is a lot to do. I don’t think EtH can do any harm to Klopp and it’s a win for them.
Lets break down the games all 3 teams have left to play.
I’m ignoring if it’s a home or away game because at this stage, it don’t matter. All 3 title contenders have to play Tottenham and Wolves. Arsenal and Liverpool have to play Villa and Everton in common while Liverpool and City have Fulham and West Ham opponents in common. If you believe for an instance that playing against Bournemouth, Crystal Palace and Luton Town is almost same, the only team that is on disadvantage is Arsenal – because we play Chelsea and Man Utd. City on the other hand plays Brighton and Forrest.
We play 3 games against top 6 clubs, while both City and Liverpool play only Tottenham. While we have to earn a win against Man Utd at Old Trafford, Liverpool will play Aston Villa and City against Fulham. While we try to win Pochettino battle, both these team will play Everton and Brighton respectively.
That’s some tough luck. If you ask a neutral, they will say both Pool and City have a better probability to win. If you ask an Arsenal fan, we don’t give a fuck what probability says and we will beat both Chelsea and Man Utd and register a 3-0 win at Shite Hart Lane.
It’s a mixed feeling though if I am being honest. We have Champions League to play for as well, and the gods haven’t shown mercy with us playing Bayern over 2 legs and one of the City / Madrid in semis. There is no margin for error and even a draw at this point can derail your title challenge.
The best part of this 3-way title challenge is that no team plays against each other. If we win all our games, and Liverpool slips, we win the title. If Liverpool win all, they run away with the title. If City win all their games, it doesn’t matter if either Liverpool or Arsenal do no drop a point.
I would say we are in a better situation up until now than City. I would say we have much harder games to play and win than both the teams.
Opta are still being dickheads with us as third favourites. They’re just being basic.
Last year I felt like City were hunting us down expecting us to flop. This year both City and Pool know how good we are and they can’t rely on that. It’s going to add to their pressure. We’re just going about our business.
I’ll take a controlled 0-0 v Bayern. We’re still feeling our way Champs League, Porto a proper CL team showed that. But we learnt from that first game.
We can show we know how to keep them at bay, we go back to theirs and they then0 know if they let one in they’re in trouble too. They’ve still got plenty of goal threats including Kane, apparently their XG is very impressive despite results, but they also have pressure of already knowing they’re not winning the league, this is it for them.
KP, Tony
Fat Sam is Old Red Nose’s lap dog. United never lost against a Fat Sam team.
Trvl,
You being wrong about things doesn’t make me a lover of all things Arteta, that’s just your way of dealing with me pointing out where you’re wrong about things.
It’s the same way you minimise whatever Tets, or whoever else you’ve been wrong about, does right.
There’s little point reading your responses. It’s either an insult or yet another crappy footballing opinion. If you want me to read them, make them better.
Aitcho—even though you’re clearly a tool of epic proportions, I’ll always be amazed by just how many of your kind can fit in the smallest of vehicles
(just so you don’t misconstrue anything, I was calling you a clown)
Norg
Fat Sams clowning glory for me is this:
https://www.sotonians.com/t/big-fat-sam-telegraph-sting/2390/41?page=3
Just reading about Spain’s about turn on brits’ tourism angst and wondered if it would interfere with your new production lines in north Spain later this year.
My friend with cancer got the worst news yesterday where I have left the family to cope with the inevitable.
Not an area I could point you in the future, but I’m sure my cardiologist of 15 years would certainly be useful for helpful connects in the future. I’m going to be living in BKK very soon weekdays, and back to my home for weekends.
https://hhr.co.th/#gallery_description_gallery-1-20
About £250+ a week including services gets a decent 1-bed condo fully serviced with facilities that can include a cinema for around 10-12 people – so home from home for me.
Essentially, I’ll be enjoying the excellent facilities the better condo companies offer when my better half is doing her engineering, and I’ll have time to look up old friends and will meet new ones.
Anyone coming to Thailand should check out the condo companies, as they rent as hotel rooms because of lack of buyers and a low demand for the huge available high end condos at affordable rental prices that are much better than hotels unless you want to pay around £200+ per night for a room not suite if you want top facilities. Even then Condos far exceed hotels’ facilities.
https://www.dusit.com/dusitsuites-ratchadamribangkok/
So many better options if you look past hotels here.
Obviously, I’d love us to beat Bayern, but PL first for me as I’ve posted before.
Aitcho
We tend to offer opinions from both our emotions and and logic from knowledge of the game. TRVL offer more isight from his playing and coaching insights.
We are not always right or wrong where our views can be right even when wrong such is the nature of the game and its intricacies these days.
Why not agree to disagree and move on with your own detailed points. There are no prizes for right or insults when we are wrong. Banter is one thing but insults we generally keep away from here because we enjoy each others company here and some of us away from here.
LIR is different to anything I’ve encountered as a blog not that I’m well versed in blogs, far from it as I’ve only ever read LG and LIR and posted where alphas tend to want to be up front and personal. LG is typical of that.
Whilst some of us deem LIR a “Gooner family” blog we are happy to be put right, in less confrontational ways with any wayward opinions that have been manifested with strong emotions.
Far be it from me to suggest how you post here, but TRVL has no problems with regulars here and is well respected for his tactical nous and footballing insights. Of course, not right all the time, but that just shows he’s human like you, me and the rest of us here.
We all love The Arsenal here and show it in our own ways – sometimes really good, sometimes bad, but never ugly here – like it gets on LG daily.
Up to you how you post – just pointing out the mood of the room that generally is a happy one unless we feel the need to express feelings or an opinion, and then it tends to be in unison.
Trvl, you’re being abusive. Again. Don’t be a silly Billy
It won’t make your terrible opinions any better.
Take my advice, try to enjoy when good things happen. Or you can ignore it and make yourself sad wailing how a manager and players who’ve got us back in the Champs league and title chasing are all frauds.
Cheerio
Tony, it’s up to me like you said. Express in unison all you want, ultimately the guvnor will decide if what’s needed is an anti Arteta, and everything he does, echo chamber or not. But you don’t find me insulting people if someone points out how ridiculous my views are
But it’s clear Trvl hasn’t got any serious level coaching or even playing experience from coments he makes. I cam only assess that on his ramblings and facile speculation as a basis for his viewpoints. So perhaps you take him more seriously than is practical.
It’s nice that you’re acting as policeman for him,. You’ve weirdly decided you want to pick a side between two strangers on on blog for some bizarre reason so I’m not sure how seriously I should take you either.
Tony
I read the article about Spain. Our production will be in Spain but I will eventually employ locals. The area where we will be is in the North and unemployment is currently 11.46%. There are lots of Spanish Government grants that will help me to set up.
I posted on a previous post by mistake – we were at an old friends on the weekend and chatted to a neighbour. He can remember going to a music festival at the Great Tulip Hall in Spalding in 1967. The tickets were a £1 – the line up – Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Pink Floyd, Who, Move & Zoot Money.
BM tonight – I am more confident of a Arsenal win than in previous years. The well oiled BM machine has run out of three in one oil (or should that be 5 in 1). Kane will be up for it but under Tuchel they appear to be dis-jointed. My prediction 2 -1 to the good guys.
Aitcho-at no time in the history of this blog have the following words of Mark Twain been more apropos, “It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it”…it might be wise to heed those words, as you’re once again making an absolute fool of yourself, my trolling little simpleton……check yourself you guileless, infantile waste of space…btw “see you next Tuesday” is a nice way of calling someone a cunt
Ambarish-I won’t personal address this baiting passive aggressive half-wit again…my apologies for the above verbal thrashing
a few thoughts about our upcoming Bayern matchup to ponder:
this season Bayern has potted 5 more goals in 3 less games, but they have likewise surrendered 12 more goals against lesser competition…this is why I believe we can’t go into this matchup believing that our best pathway to victory is to try and turn this into a low scoring defensive battle…Lazio attempted this tactic and even went into the 2nd leg with a goal advantage, but quickly discovered just how difficult it is to contain a going for broke Bayern side at the Allianz, who btw are substantially healthier now
for me, it’s time for us to flip our typical script, for a matchup of this ilk, and attack them from the off, as they will undoubtedly expect us to adopt a more conservative approach, much like in our most recent City fixture, for fear of opening the proverbial floodgates…following another cock-up this past weekend, Bayern will be in full wounded animal mode, but if we can find a way to make them second guess themselves again, they just might turn on each other, especially if Muller is on the pitch
now normally Tuchel would simply make the necessary adjustments in a timely manner, which could in turn expose us on the counter, but with the inmate’s in charge, now that he’s little more than a lame duck manager, we could find ourselves up by a couple goals up before any real adjustments are made during the break…if this were the case we could simply revert back to our more defensive selves come the second half and hope that they’ll provide us with some tasty break opportunities once they’ve committed more men in our final third
of course, it’s highly unlikely that we will go this route, as it will require MA to both resist his normal conservative inklings and select a less tried and tested starting 11, but I think it just might be our best shot
TRVL
BM have had a few poor games this season – probably more than for quite a few seasons. Hit them hard from the off could be the solution – our line up at the back especially if Zinnie is on the bench is more than capable of keeping Kane under their thumb.
Hi NORG
A (WD) 4-0 would do me, and probably lead to K’phobe junior and I getting thoroughly lubricated. Oh, hang on, that doesn’t sound right does it?
Wengo was always fond of those types of numbers in euro games – only problem was ours were always the binary ones, ie 1s and 0s.
Evening all. Being an erstwhile diplomat, I’ve been keeping schtum while hostilities have been raging. Time now though for a ceasefire with some detente, rapprochement and confidence building measures.
C’mon you rip-roaring reds.
Hi Vieira
Hitting Bayern like a train is certainly one strategy but I think the first 15 minutes will be cagey. However, the pressure will be on Stubborn el Bastardo to up the ante and score. Drawing tonight is not an option.
Tony
You watching live tonight?
KP
El B was cautious as a player and it has followed him into management.
New post. Fuck those bastards.
I won’t personally address…
Lol Trvl,
It’s not a Mark Twain quote.
That’s what happens when you let memes become a substitute for learning things.
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt”
to whom it may concern, sorry for dumbing things down a bit so that the intended reader, who’s not the sharpest tool in the shed, wasn’t unnecessarily overwhelmed by the original verbiage…I apologize to anyone who might have been offended by my usage of quotation marks considering the modifications made…thankfully the underlying message of both versions applies regardless of any liberties I might have taken…God bless